MSTR Stock Price Forecast as Strategy Emerges the 16th Most-Traded US Stock After 16% Rally

Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) stock price gained 16% on September 18 to close trading at $153. These gains mirrored the uptrend across the broader crypto market.

Bitcoin (BTC) rose to $81,000 before consolidating at $80,000. Ethereum (ETH) also reached its highest price in eight months above $2,600.

Other crypto stocks, including Coinbase (COIN) and Circle (CRCL), also gained by 11% and 7%, respectively.

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Strategy Emerges the 16th Most-Traded US Stock

Data from MarketBeat shows that Strategy had the 16th-highest dollar volume on September 18. These volumes reached $8.36 billion, with Strategy surpassing bigger companies like Netflix and Visa in volume numbers.

More than 54 million MSTR shares were also traded during the day, with most of this coming from buy-side orders. This marked the highest buy-side volumes for the stock since February 2026.

In a recent X post, Strategy had also stated that the MSTR stock had surpassed big-cap US-listed companies like Tesla and Meta in the 30-day average trading volumes.

Per Strategy, MSTR’s 30-day average trading volumes sit at 5.4% of the market cap, with this being higher than Tesla’s 0.9%, Meta’s 0.6%, and Nvidia’s 0.5%.

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Strategy’s Unrealized Profits on Bitcoin Hit $4.7B

MSTR stock gains coincided with surging crypto prices, which pushed the company’s unrealized profits on the 845,050 BTC that it holds to $4.73 billion, per data from Saylor Tracker.

The rising unrealized profits come despite Strategy pausing fresh Bitcoin buys for two weeks, as the company focuses on buying back the STRC preferred stock.

As earlier reported by CoinGape, Strategy recently repurchased $139 million in STRC shares, bringing the total repurchases since July to $950 million.

Because of these buybacks, the price of STRC preferred stock by Strategy also gained by 0.389% to close trading at $98.51. STRC is now only 1.49% shy of its par value of $100.

MSTR Stock Forecast as Bulls Test 200-day EMA Resistance

MSTR stock price closed at $153 on September 18. This closing price is close to the 200-day EMA support of $152.

If the gains continue when the market opens on Monday, September 21, MSTR stock price could continue the uptrend and reach the 161.8% Fib of $183.

The MACD line that is positive supports a bullish future outlook for MSTR stock. Bulls are also tightening their grip because the MACD line is crossing above the signal line.

The MACD histogram bars that are also turning green confirm that the buying pressure is rising, and this could support the move towards $183.

Still, the crypto market is often volatile, and if Bitcoin price begins to retrace as those who purchased during the rally begin to book profits, MSTR stock could retrace to retest the support at the 20-day EMA of $129.